Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 30 · Decided 12 February 1974
Raghubir Singh v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 30 · [1974] 3 S.C.R. 356
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 124/1973
- Decided
- 12 February 1974
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. SARKARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201
Headnote
SINGH v. STATE OF HARYANA February 12, 197 4. [V. R. KRISHNA IYER AND R. S. SARKARIA, JJ.) Murder-Death penalty when ca11 be reduced to life in1prisonn1ent. The appellant developed illicit intimacy with the deceased. When the A B deceased feigned pregnancy and pressed him to marry her, he gave C On appeal to this Court on the question of sentence : HELD : While murder in its aggravated form and in the abs~nce of extenuat· ing factors connected with crime, criminal or legal process, still is condignly visited with death penalty, a compassionate alternative of life
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